Model, actress and best-selling author Emily Ratajkowski has officially filed from divorce from her husband Sebastian Bear-McClard, amid claims that the filmmaker was unfaithful to her during their 4-year marriage. Court records show that the 31-year-old model took the first steps to legally end her marriage on September 8, 2022, filing for divorce in a Manhattan Supreme Court.
The divorce is contested, which means that the two parties have yet to agree on the exact circumstance of the divorce and the division of assets going forward.
Rumors of trouble in her marriage began circulating in July 2022, when Page Six reported that actor and producer Bear-McClard had been repetitively cheating on his wife. Not long after the reports started, Emily was seen out and about without her wedding ring.
Emily has given hints about Sebastian's infidelity on social media, liking suspicious tweets. Here is everything we know about Emily Ratajkowski's divorce from Sebastian Bear-McClard.
10 When Did Emily Ratajkowski And Sebastian Bear-McClard Get Married?
Model Emily Ratajkowski and Uncut Gems producer Sebastian Bear-McClard married in 2018 in a surprise courthouse ceremony at New York City Hall. When they announced their wedding, their relationship had only been public for a few weeks. The two had been dating for less than a year when they wed.
“I love a party and I plan on having that moment, but people don’t end up enjoying their wedding as they are so stressed by the planning and having this ‘moment’. I really wanted this to just be me and him which was really special ... before the world found out we had four hours of just us," she said of the low key New York ceremony.
She hit out at the backlash of their short courtship. “We knew each other for a long time before, and he likes to joke, ‘Yeah everyone thinks we got married quickly, but you vetted me for two years,’” she said.
9 How Sebastian Bear-McClard Proposed To Emily Ratajkowski
Emily Ratajkowski opened up to Jimmy Fallon on his late-night show about her unusual proposal.
"He proposed to me at Minetta Tavern, and he didn't have a ring, so I was like mmm, nah," she told the host. "And then he took the paper clip that the bill was paid with and made me a ring, which I actually thought was really romantic."
They later recruited an Israeli jewelry designer to help create rings, which they "hammered out" themselves.
8 Do Emily Ratajkowski And Sebastian Bear-McClard Have Kids?
In October 2020, Emily Ratajkowski announced her pregnancy in Vogue.
“Pregnancy is innately lonely; it’s something a woman does by herself, inside her body, no matter what her circumstances may be,” she wrote at the time. “Despite having a loving partner and many female friends ready to share the gritty details of their pregnancies, I am ultimately alone with my body in this experience.”
Their son, Sylvester, was born in March 2021. He sometimes appears on her Instagram feed, although she has revealed from little about him.
7 How Emily Ratajkowski Divorce Rumors Began
Rumors began to circulate about the status of Emily Ratajkowski's marriage to Sebastian Bear-McClard when she stopped wearing her wedding ring in public. She also didn’t post a public message to Sebastian for Father’s Day. Soon gossip sites, like Deux Moi, had their eyes on the story and her hand.
6 When Did Emily Ratajkowski And Sebastian Bear-McClard Split Up?
Emily and Sebastian broke up in July 2022, when she allegedly discovered he was a “serial cheater”.
“Emily and Sebastian have split. They’d been having issues as a couple for a bit,” a source told Entertainment Tonight. “Emily is adjusting to this change and plans to file for divorce soon.”
An anonymous source confirmed his infidelity to Page Six, commenting: “He’s a serial cheater. It’s gross. He’s a dog."
A source close to the model told People, “They split recently. It was Em’s decision. She is doing okay. She is strong and focused on her son. She loves being a mom.”
5 Emily Ratajkowski Wants A Fresh Break Among Cheating Rumors
A source told Us Weekly that the Gone Girl actress wants to get a fresh start in a new place. “She got an apartment downtown to get away from her ex and start her new life,” the source recently said. “They’re only speaking to each other through the nanny.”
“She isn’t speaking to him because of his infidelity, he isn’t speaking to her because he feels she was checked out of their relationship for the last year.”
4 Emily Ratajkowski Hints To Breakup Online
Throughout the last few months, the fashion model and designer has subtly confirmed the break-down of her marriage. In July, Emily Ratajkowski liked multiple posts about her husband's alleged infidelity
The Tweets she liked included, “can’t believe that little b**** cheated on emrata,” while another reads: “Girls, how are we celebrating Emrata’s divorce”.
On her TikTok last month, Ratajowksi shared a video of her dog with the caption: “The only man I want in my bed this [sic] 90lb boy.”
In a later TikTok Duet that Ratajkowski shared read, “When he thinks he’s a 10 because he pulled you, but you like ugly men.” In the comments, she quickly added: “For legal reasons this is a joke.”
3 Will Emily Ratajkowski Date Again?
Looks like Emily Ratajkowski is ready to date again.
"Under a patriarchy, there's this premise of men 'getting women,' 'getting them,' 'pulling them' like there's something to posses," Emily Ratajkowski explained in a post earlier this month. She then added, "As a recently single person who is thinking about dating and stuff, I've really seen that with my friends and with the conversations around it."
The best-selling author added that comments about relationships should instead revolve around having a "reciprocal mutual relationship where two people could potentially foster love."
2 Did Emily Ratajowski Date Brad Pitt?
Not long after her split with Sebastian Bear-McClard, Emily Ratajkowski was linked to Brad Pitt.
The rumors appeared to start when Pitt was “crushing” on the model at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty in 2020. “They weren’t in a private area or anything like that, but they did talk with friends around,” the insider told Ok! Magazine. At the time she was happily married, but he soon jumped at the chance to ask her out when he discovered she was single.
“He asked her out, and she said yes. She’s always thought Brad was cute, and the way she saw it, what did she have to lose?”
There is very little fact behind these rumors. After the split, the model was based in New York, and he spent his summer promoting his movie, Bullet Train, around the world.
1 Emily Ratajkowski Has Kept Working Hard
The 31-year-old, who became famous for appearing in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" music video, has kept busy since her divorce.
The model has recently wrapped up a busy New York Fashion Week and where she walked for multiple brands, including Jonathan Anderson, Tory Burch, and Galliano, among others. She is also walking throughout London Fashion Week and promoting her brands on social media.
She also recently appeared at The Forbes Power Women's Summit in New York, which was focused on celebrating women whose voices are breaking ground in business and working toward equality.
"I always think that sexism is bad for everyone, including men. I think is a huge issue, and we feel the ramifications of that, but also men live with that as well. As somebody who has a son, I think about that a lot. It's, for me, very important to expand that conversation to men," she said at the September summit.
